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Harold Collard, M.D.

Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program

Dr. Harold R. Collard is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program at UCSF Medical Center. His primary interest is in the management of patients with interstitial lung disease, including how best to diagnose and treat interstitial lung disease and how the condition impacts a patient's quality of life and survival.

Collard earned a medical degree at Duke University. He completed an internship, residency and chief residency in internal medicine at UCSF as well as a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Colorado. Prior to joining UCSF, Collard was a member of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver.

Clinics

Chest Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave., Fifth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143-0359
Phone: (415) 353-2961
Fax: (415) 353-2568

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Interstitial Lung Disease Program
400 Parnassus Ave., Fifth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2577
Fax: (415) 353-2568

Hours: Friday
8 a.m. – noon

Conditions & Treatments

More about Harold Collard

Education

Duke University School of Medicine 1997

Residencies

UCSF Medical Center, Internal Medicine 2000

Fellowships

University of Colorado Medical Center 2004

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Raghu G, Collard HR, Anstrom KJ, Flaherty KR, Fleming TR, King TE, Martinez FJ, Brown KK. Reply: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: perspectives on clinically meaningful primary endpoints in phase 3 clinical trials. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013 Jun 1; 187(11):1272.
  2. Raghu G, Behr J, Brown KK, Egan JJ, Kawut SM, Flaherty KR, Martinez FJ, Nathan SD, Wells AU, Collard HR, Costabel U, Richeldi L, de Andrade J, Khalil N, Morrison LD, Lederer DJ, Shao L, Li X, Pedersen PS, Montgomery AB, Chien JW, O'Riordan TG. Treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with ambrisentan: a parallel, randomized trial. Ann Intern Med. 2013 May 7; 158(9):641-9.
  3. Sottile PD, Iturbe D, Katsumoto TR, Connolly MK, Collard HR, Leard LA, Hays S, Golden JA, Hoopes C, Kukreja J, Singer JP. Outcomes in systemic sclerosis-related lung disease after lung transplantation. Transplantation. 2013 Apr 15; 95(7):975-80.
  4. Fingerlin TE, Murphy E, Zhang W, Peljto AL, Brown KK, Steele MP, Loyd JE, Cosgrove GP, Lynch D, Groshong S, Collard HR, Wolters PJ, Bradford WZ, Kossen K, Seiwert SD, du Bois RM, Garcia CK, Devine MS, Gudmundsson G, Isaksson HJ, Kaminski N, Zhang Y, Gibson KF, Lancaster LH, Cogan JD, Mason WR, Maher TM, Molyneaux PL, Wells AU, Moffatt MF, Selman M, Pardo A, Kim DS, Crapo JD, Make BJ, Regan EA, Walek DS, Daniel JJ, Kamatani Y, Zelenika D, Smith K, McKean D, Pedersen BS, Talbert J, Kidd RN, Markin CR, Beckman KB, Lathrop M, Schwarz MI, Schwartz DA. Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for pulmonary fibrosis. Nat Genet. 2013 Apr 14; 45(6):613-20.
  5. Lee JS, Kim EJ, Lynch KL, Elicker B, Ryerson CJ, Katsumoto TR, Shum AK, Wolters PJ, Cerri S, Richeldi L, Jones KD, King TE, Collard HR. Prevalence and clinical significance of circulating autoantibodies in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Respir Med. 2013 Feb; 107(2):249-55.
  6. Cha SI, Ryerson CJ, Lee JS, Kukreja J, Barry SS, Jones KD, Elicker BM, Kim DS, Papa FR, Collard HR, Wolters PJ. Cleaved cytokeratin-18 is a mechanistically informative biomarker in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Respir Res. 2012; 13:105.
  7. Collard HR, Morris A, Daley CL, Humbert M, Meyer KC. Clinical year in review IV: HIV, mycobacterial disease, pulmonary hypertension, and interstitial lung disease. Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2012 Oct; 9(4):204-9.
  8. Adkins JM, Collard HR. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Semin Respir Crit Care Med. 2012 Oct; 33(5):433-9.
  9. Ley B, Ryerson CJ, Vittinghoff E, Ryu JH, Tomassetti S, Lee JS, Poletti V, Buccioli M, Elicker BM, Jones KD, King TE, Collard HR. A multidimensional index and staging system for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Ann Intern Med. 2012 May 15; 156(10):684-91.
  10. Collard HR, Ward AJ, Lanes S, Cortney Hayflinger D, Rosenberg DM, Hunsche E. Burden of illness in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. J Med Econ. 2012; 15(5):829-35.
  11. Raghu G, Collard HR, Anstrom KJ, Flaherty KR, Fleming TR, King TE, Martinez FJ, Brown KK. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: clinically meaningful primary endpoints in phase 3 clinical trials. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2012 May 15; 185(10):1044-8.
  12. Ryerson CJ, Arean PA, Berkeley J, Carrieri-Kohlman VL, Pantilat SZ, Landefeld CS, Collard HR. Depression is a common and chronic comorbidity in patients with interstitial lung disease. Respirology. 2012 Apr; 17(3):525-32.
  13. Klein OL, Jones M, Lee J, Collard HR, Smith LJ. Reduced lung diffusion capacity in type 2 diabetes is independent of heart failure. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2012 Jun; 96(3):e73-5.
  14. Richeldi L, Ryerson CJ, Lee JS, Wolters PJ, Koth LL, Ley B, Elicker BM, Jones KD, King TE, Ryu JH, Collard HR. Relative versus absolute change in forced vital capacity in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Thorax. 2012 May; 67(5):407-11.
  15. Cha SI, Chang CS, Kim EK, Lee JW, Matthay MA, Golden JA, Elicker BM, Jones K, Collard HR, Wolters PJ. Lung mast cell density defines a subpopulation of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Histopathology. 2012 Jul; 61(1):98-106.
  16. King TE, Collard HR, Richeldi L. Interstitial lung diseases. Preface. Clin Chest Med. 2012 Mar; 33(1):xiii.
  17. Ley B, Collard HR. Risk prediction in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2012 Jan 1; 185(1):6-7.
  18. Lee JS, Song JW, Wolters PJ, Elicker BM, King TE, Kim DS, Collard HR. Bronchoalveolar lavage pepsin in acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Eur Respir J. 2012 Feb; 39(2):352-8.
  19. Ryerson CJ, Collard HR. How to build a biomarker: IL-7 and acute exacerbation of IPF. Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis. 2011 Oct; 28(2):83-4.
  20. Lee JS, McLaughlin S, Collard HR. Comprehensive care of the patient with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2011 Sep; 17(5):348-54.

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